List of Education articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Get Tenure
The top ten things junior faculty need to know — and why it should matter to the rest of us.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 India’s Elementary Mistake
The Modi government's planned cuts to elementary education spending are a step in the wrong direction for India.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Want to adapt to a complex world? Get yourself some liberally educated officers
In late 2013, a past CG of U.S. Army Cadet Command justified the previously mentioned point bonus for STEM degrees because those cadets chose 'difficult academic majors.'
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dozens Dead After Terrorist Rampage at Pakistani University
It remains unclear who is responsible for a deadly terrorist attack that left dozens dead at a Pakistani university Wednesday.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The other side of the CGSC story: Some of our Army officers are functionally illiterate
Unlike the other armed services, who only send 25 percent or fewer members of each year group to resident staff college, the Army sends almost 50 percent of each year group. This results in functionally illiterate Army majors coming to CGSC.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A letter to the West Point Class of 2014: No combat patch? That’s no problem!
Best of Best Defense: Number 16 in our list of the most viewed posts of 2015. This post ran originally on April 22, 2014.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Los Angeles Schools Close Due to Unspecified Threat
Officials cite the San Bernardino attack in their decision to shut down schools across Los Angeles.
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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: Hundreds of J Street U students rush towards the doors of Hillel International to put up post-it notes in a response to Hillel President Eric Fingerhut canceling his scheduled speech at their conference. (Erin Schaff/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) How the Israel Lobby Captured Hillel
Hillel International used to be a welcoming campus organization for Jews of all persuasions. Not anymore.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watch Japan’s New Education Minister Wrestle Ric Flair
Surprisingly, Hiroshi Hase is not the first professional wrestler to become a high-ranking official in Japan's government.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 When I hear PME types use the word ‘rigor,’ I gotta throw the bullshit flag
A new academic year has commenced at many Professional Military Education (PME) programs. Per the 2009 Congressional assessment, PME must: “continuously evolve in order to imbue service members with the intellectual agility to assume expanded roles and to perform new missions in an ever dynamic and increasingly complicated security environment.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Egypt’s Besieged Universities
The country’s scholars had better teach from President Sisi’s textbook — or else.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tunisia’s Illiterate Democracy
Will the Arab Spring's lone success story continue if its citizens can't read?
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Afghan school girls play in the yard after their class at Ayesha primary school in Mazar-i Sharif on April 12, 2013. Under the hard line Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, cinema was banned and girls were prohibited from attending school. AFP PHOTO/ Farshad USYAN (Photo credit should read FARSHAD USYAN/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Welcome to Afghanistan’s Peace College
Can you teach your way out of a war?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Cutthroat Academic Competition Is Ruining a Generation of Youth
The 'gaokao' college entrance exam is really a merciless struggle for wealth and power.
